Sunday, March 29, 2015

Official Summary: "Kaya Satozuka prides herself on being an excellent secretary and a
consummate professional, so she doesn’t even bat an eye when she’s
reassigned to the offi ce of her company’s diffi cult director, Kyohei
Tohma. He’s as prickly–and hot–as rumors paint him, but Kaya is
unfazed...until she discovers that he’s a vampire!!

Kyohei has
left the family firm to start his own business, and Kaya is at his side
as his indispensible secretary…but only at night. By day she’s still the
executive secretary for Erde, a subsidiary of the company Kyohei just
quit. The increased workload isn’t a problem, but when the president of
Erde discovers that Kaya is seeing an ex-Tohma Corp. executive, he
starts to question her professional ethics! Will being vampire’s
secretary put an end to her career?!

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for mature audiences."

Review: I am starting to feel a heavy repetition going on at this point in the
series. While I love the artwork, I feel like little happened in this
volume.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Stacking
the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews, every
Weekend.
This is to share books I have acquired from various sources.
Physical books & ebooks both are
welcome. If its something being sent to me by mail, I will not mention it until I actually
receive it.

So I have a busy month in April for Review titles! Work keeps picking up which is financially good but free time is minimal so right now. Hopefully it won't be too bad once we get some new staff to take on some of the pressure off.

Top it off with my allergies are worse than just allergies and my energy level is practically nonexistent.

On a plus, last week's yard sale was a success and brought in a
pretty penny. Sadly I learned that trying to read on slow times does not
work. The minute to book came out my mother-in-law or neighor comes out
and decides to get chatty. However if I sat there staring into space I
got peace and quiet. Go figure!

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For Review

"Thirteen-year-old Daine
has always had a knack with animals, but it's not until she's forced to
leave home that she realizes it's more than a knack -- it's magic. With
this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but also she can
make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen's
Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student.Under
Numair's guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she
begins to sense other beings too: immortals. These bloodthirsty monsters
have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred
years, but now someone has broken the barrier. It's up to Daine and her
friends to defend their world from an immortal attack."

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"Urus Noellor--a boy
born deaf who is about to be publicly branded as a burden, incapable of
being the warrior his people demand--stands upon a rooftop, poised to
throw himself over the edge. His failed attempt at suicide unlocks
within him a long-dormant form of magic thought to have died out
thousands of years before, a power that may be the key to saving the
world from an equally ancient enemy.

Urus and his
companions--Goodwyn, the greatest warrior in Kest, and Cailix, a
mysterious orphan--must find a way to stop a powerful group of sorcerers
from destroying the five long-hidden vertices that ward the world
against threats from beyond, while fighting off threats from within.
They soon learn that the scope of the coming danger may be more dire
than any of them could have imagined. As the battle for the vertices
spreads to the neighboring realms, Goodwyn must face the realities of
war and death; Cailix discovers a devastating truth that could change
everything; and Urus discovers his uncanny gifts and courage as he peels
away clues to his true identity. But even as Urus gains the power he
has always craved, he experiences it all in profound, lonely silence."

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"Fifteen-year-old Ashley
has a complicated life. There’s no doubt her overachieving parents love
her, but they are wrapped up in their own worlds for so much of the
time it leaves her feeling like she’s alone.

Like a lot of
teenagers, Ashley dreams of other worlds, but unlike a lot of teenagers
her world is about to collapse as rifts to an ancient Fae Kingdom begin
to open all around her. With the arrival of of a supernatural hit-squad
intent on killing her, and an unexpected inheritance, Ashley’s London is
about to become a magical and mysterious warzone where the prize is
Ashley herself.

Ashley has to find out the secrets of her own
life before she is killed. Balancing ancient prophecies, schoolwork and
the love of her life is difficult to say the least! Take part of the
wonderful world of Moonlands."

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"“She’s here. I feel her.”“Who’s here?”“The one who’s mine.”

To
the dismay of her family, Kris Edwards postpones college, despite a
full-ride scholarship, and moves to the beach. She has a crazy feeling
there’s something she has to find to figure out her life, and it’s at
the coast.

She’s pretty sure that something isn’t Jericho, the
too-hot surfer with amazing blue eyes. He’s way out of her league. And
is that an actual electric spark that happens every time she touches
him? She doesn’t have time for him—not with two jobs, a boozer neighbor,
and her best friend’s stalker on the scene. Not to mention the weird
black mist over the water or outside her workplace that no one seems to
notice but her.

But there’s more to Jericho than Kris realizes,
and she can’t blow him off so easily. He’s in tune with the magic of the
tides, and only he knows of the evil that’s washed ashore and is coming
for her. The closer Kris gets to him the more danger she’s in. But he
can’t let her be—he’s been waiting years for her.

With Jericho by her side, Kris might find what she’s looking for. Or she might lose everything."

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"Two hundred and fifty
oil workers mysteriously vanish from the offshore Aeschylus drilling
platform without a trace. Production stops. Communications cease. The
Valley Oil Corporation finds itself on the brink of disaster and
prepares to send an investigative team deep into the south Atlantic.

Kate
McCreedy, daughter of the late U.S. Vice President, is whisked into a
secret board meeting shortly after inheriting a windfall of Valley Oil
stock. Her father not only left her his fortune, however, but an
envelope containing covert satellite images of The Aeschylus. Believing
the images are linked to the developing crisis, she volunteers to join
the team.

Upon arrival, they discover the platform is overgrown
with a massive, tentacle-like fungus, and the missing workers are
nowhere to be found. Kate delves deeper into the mystery, discovering a
nearby island, an abandoned military base, and a secret dating back some
eighty years. It's not long before she must make a choice: assist in a
corporate cover-up, or destroy her family legacy with the truth."

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Recently I read the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. In this book the main character is a heavy fanfiction writer for her favorite book series. This got me thinking to the days when I used to read (yes I will admit it) even write fanfiction. When I started I didn't think anything of it as being wrong. I gave credit to the original creator, made no money, etc.

Some authors love the idea and/or at least accepting of fanfiction, Authors include: Neil Gaiman, Meg Cabot, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Melissa Marr, Stephanie Meyer, J.K Rowling and many others. They are accpeting of the idea. Some say it can be inspiring for future writers, others are flattered that their world lives on.

Then some authors are very against the very concept of Fanfiction. Authors include Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, Robin Hobb, George RR Martin, among others. Their reasons are the opposite. They feel it stunts creativity, are worried about copyright laws, or feel it is just plain theft.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Official Summary:"A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...

But
for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and
her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series
when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother
leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums,
writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for
every movie premiere.

Now
that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to
be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort
zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around
boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end
of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk
about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving
and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Review:Well this is much more a coming-of-age novel than about fangirling.
While there are some elements to the main character with being a bit
obsessive over Simon Snow (basically Harry Potter), it is more her
learning how to adapt to life. While I was expecting more fandom
aspects going into this story I got some other aspects that made up for
it.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Stacking
the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews, every
Weekend.
This is to share books I have acquired from various sources.
Physical books & ebooks both are
welcome. If its something being sent to me by mail, I will not mention it until I actually
receive it.

Keeping it short this week Lots going on this week, prepping for a yard sale this weekend, plus I keep getting called in extra for work. Good on the $$ but terrible when you already have a lot on your plate. So sadly, my blog and reading has had to take some cuts to compensate the balance. Hopefully this next week will be more fulfilling!

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For Review

When
they were little, Lexi and her identical twin, Ava, made up a third
sister, Alicia. If something broke? Alicia did it. Cookies got eaten?
Alicia's guilty. Alicia was always to blame for everything. The game is
all grown up now that the girls are seniors. They use Alicia as their
cover to go out with boys who are hot but not exactly dating material.
Boys they'd never, ever be with in real life.

Now one of the guys
Alicia went out with has turned up dead, and Lexi wants to stop the
game for good. As coincidences start piling up, Ava insists that if they
follow the rules for being Alicia, everything will be fine. But when
another boy is killed, the DNA evidence and surveillance photos point to
only one suspect: Alicia. The girl who doesn't exist. As she runs from
the cops, Lexi has to find the truth before another boy is murdered.
Because either Ava is a killer…or Alicia is real."

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"R.A. Salvatore’s New
York Times best-selling tale of the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden continues
immediately on the heels of Rise of the King, with an expanding war and
greater danger to the finally-reunited Companions of the Hall.

Bloody
war rages across the Forgotten Realms world in the third book of the
Companions Codex, the latest series in R.A. Salvatore’s New York Times
best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden.

In the evolving
world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to
months of cloud-cloaked darkness, and war rages under that oppressive
sky. The orcs have broken a hard-fought treaty that's held, however
tentatively, for a hundred years, and the time to settle old scores has
devolved into an all-out brawl for control of the ancient realms of the
North."

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"Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times
bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and
magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish
spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.

Sandrine Salome flees New
York for her grandmother’s Paris mansion to escape her dangerous
husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house,
famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously
closed up. Although her grandmother insists it’s dangerous for Sandrine
to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young
architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the
forbidden occult underground and Sandrine’s deepest desires.